Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-14

land, has been sentenced TO eight months i'm
prisonment for stducti1s a seventeen yea
Old girl.
There were three sunstrnkes in Boston OF
Wednesday. one fatal. Maurice RYAN OF
Roxhury. city employe; the other two AT,
critical.
General Richard Rowell, the famous horse
breeder, dropped dead on the Washington
Z Park race track at Chicago, Wednesday af-
ternoon.
The English government has invited Euro
pean powers to take part in a conference al
London or elsewhere, on the sugar bounties
question.
General Sir Redvers Butler, under secre-
tary for Ireland, is in London, comforting
with the government IN reference to the stat
of Ireland.
The Parnellite members of Parliament
held meeting Tuesday night and decided TO
support Bannermsn's motion that the land
bill be rejected.
Councilman Murray and Mr.. Reeves of
Athens, Ga, engaged in a quarrel over bust
hess matters Tuesday evening, when Murray
shot Reeves dead.
Irving o. Palmer, member of the last
class of Colby University at Wsterville, Ne :,
has been appointed principal of the Derby
Academy at Derby, VT.
The strike Of the engineers and tremen on
the Brooklyn elevated railroad continues.
Both sides are Stubborn, and there is no tell
ing when the strike will end.
The Commercial Advertiser of New York
says the Knights OF Labor have lost 100000
members the past fourteen months and the
dissolution of the order is imm,nent.
The Sultan persists in his refusal to sign
convention with England in reference TO
Egypt in its present form notwithstanding he
is urgently advised to ratify it by both Ger
many and Italy.
The North German Gazette of Berlin, adj
vises the German residents of Paris to close
their places of business and not show them
selves in public on Thursday, the anniversary
of the fail of the Bsstile.
While an engine Of the Buffalo, Rochester
& Pittsburg railroad was nearing Crawford
Junction, Pa, Tuesday night, il exploded,
wrecking the locomotive The engineer ana
fireman were fatally scalded.
| The London Standard appeals to the union
ist leaders to assist the conservatives lii the
| BriDton and Hornsey contests TO their utmost
IN order to avoid repetition OF the conserva
lives defeat at Spalding and Coventry
The chief of police of Providence, r. L..
with officers, raided about thirty liquor ss-
looms Wednesday, seizing beer, ale and
stronger liquors in each. The chief OF the
Staie police had nothing to do with the police
raid.
Mary Retzhoff, of Providence, X. l., agef
ten years tried to light the fire with kerosene
to prepare her fathers supper Wednesday
evening Her mother was too drunk 10 At
tend to the duty. The child was burned to "A
crisp.
The Benjamin Ray property at Housatonic
Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn, burned Wednes
day morning. causing loss of about 500, 900.
The building, were ownei by the Riy estate
and were occupied by half dozen manufac-
turers.
portion of the passengers of the wrecked
steamer Merrimac. arrived at Halifax Wed
uesdav 10 the steamer City of st. John. The
last of the passengers have reached the main
land from Little Hope Island and arrived at
Liverpool.
General Simon Cameron left New York for
Europe on the steamship Brittanic, Wednes-
day. He is nearly ninety years old. He Is
going for pleasure and knowledge, and will
give considerable time to the study OF Euro
pean politics.
The American Bell Telephone Co., at its
meeting on Wednesday. declared an extra
dividend of four per cent. payable August 10,
to stockholders of Record July 30. Stockton
will succeed Mr.. Forbes as president as soon
as the change can be effected.
The German residents of Paris have been
ordered TO remain indoors Thursday, as 1t is
feared that they would be attacked if they
appeared on the streets during the celeDra-
ZION of the fall of the Bsstie. The police
and the.mllitary authorities are making extra
precautions to maintain peace.
Mgr. Parsico, the special papal envoy to
Ireland, accompanied by Archbishop Walsh,
has already visited many of the Catholic in
stitutions in the Arch diocese. He expresses
the greatest satisfaction over the standard of
education conferred in religious institutions,
and the devotion of the people to the Holy
! See.